Tias In this collection of poems and prose, Tias explores the intersection of language, movement and sensory awareness. After years of reading other poets in class, Tias felt called to craft his own passages to help cast light on the hidden spaces within. These poems and passages bid the listener away from the spell of the surface to the depths of being. Tias’s language inspires new sensations and new pathways of embodiment. Each poem awakens a feeling of belonging inside —they are perfect offerings to be shared during meditation or savasana.
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Tias Little synthesizes more than 30 years of study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhism, and poetic language into his dynamic, original style of teaching. Tias earned a master’s degree in Eastern philosophy from St. John’s College in 1998. He is the author of the books Meditations on a Dewdrop, Yoga of the Subtle Body, and Practice is the Path. This is his first book of poetry/ prose. He directs Prajna Yoga and the Healing Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Surya.
“I remember this feeling from way back whenas a child looking up under the grand maple in my backyard and the feeling of my grandmother’s pearly skin against mine. Now it comes back to me in a shimmer, like a gust of light rippling over the water swooping through my spine in a tremor—atmospheric, cathartic, free. It is not about getting back to where you once were or striving on toward some distant destination,rather it is about remembering who you are and always have been.”
— Tias Little
A mixture of poetic metaphor, personal reflection, clear instruction and compassionate presence, The Practice is the Path brings yoga teachings and Buddhist wisdom alive in intimate and immediate ways.
More detailsFor over 30 years, Tias has explored yoga as a spiritual path. In this book, he offers key teachings from his journey that will resonate with anyone who has dedicated themself to a mind/body discipline. In short, accessible chapters, Little shares his struggles and joys as a yogi and chronicles the transformation of his understanding and practice along the way.
You can order your copy at shambhala.com.
This is an invaluable resource for practitioners, teachers, and teachers in training. Organized from the feet to the crown of the head, this study of the chakras and pranic body combines esoteric anatomy from the ancient yoga tradition with Western anatomy and psychology.
More details…the practice of yoga in fact reveals that the body is in no way separate from the pyschospiritual forces that animate it. Tias Little here provides a way to understand these forces as they relate to an integrated yoga of body, mind, and spirit. He unites somatic concepts and wisdom teachings in this practical guide to the anatomy of the physical, mental, emotional, and subtle (or energetic) body. You can purchase Yoga of the Subtle Body at Shambhala.com.
Poems and Teachings on the Flow of Presence.
More detailsOne of the most celebrated metaphors in the mind training practices of yoga and meditation is the dew drop. The dew drop captures the short-lived, here today and gone tomorrow nature of being. At the same time, it is a symbol, particularly in the Zen tradition, for the reflective mind. The dew drops are invitations for us to live in the present and to celebrate the passing of moments every day. Through ancient and contemporary reflections on being with change, this book inspires us to appreciate our dew drop moments for all their tenuousness, raw beauty and fragility.
A compendium of asana from beginning to advanced, Sanskrit names and poetry.
More details…the way a weaver binds together threads on a loom. The breath not only links postures together, as in Vinyasa Yoga, but it is the life force, called prana, that animates.
When you need grounding or a guided meditation, lean into Prajna Yoga’s channel on Soundcloud. Choose from more than 30 meditations and dharma talks from Tias and Surya Little and guests.
Tias offers insightful, thought-inspiring talks on the intersection of yoga and Buddhist wisdom with the anatomical body.
Join founders Tias & Surya Little at Prajna Yoga for a mindful journey on your path to yoga. Learn what inspires them and why training and practicing yoga with Prajna is an experience of a lifetime.
Video by Martina Comstock.
This video introduces Tias Little, a master yoga teacher who travels the world sharing his deep knowledge of yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist meditation, anatomy, and more with yoga practitioners and yoga teachers.
Meet Surya Little, co-founder of Prajna Yoga with her husband, Tias Little. Surya’s knowledge on yoga, nutrition, and therapeutic yoga are renowned and appreciated by all as another layer of deepening one’s yoga practice.
